CVE-2016-10109

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-02-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-416

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in pcsc-lite before 1.8.20 allows a remote attackers to cause denial of service (crash) via a command that uses "cardsList" after the handle has been released through the SCardReleaseContext function.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 16.10
Muscle Pcsc-Lite: through 1.8.19

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3752
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/03/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95263
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3176-1
https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pcsclite-muscle/Week-of-Mon-20161226/000779.html
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
https://salsa.debian.org/rousseau/PCSC/-/commit/697fe05967af7ea215bcd5d5774be587780c9e22
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-01
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3752
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/03/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95263

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